---
type: "Bill"
title: "establishing penalties for driving over covered wooden bridges in vehicles that exceed posted limits and for vehicular damage to covered wooden bridges."
description: "establishing penalties for driving over covered wooden bridges in vehicles that exceed posted limits and for vehicular damage to covered wooden bridges."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1457"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 1457 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Margaret M. Drye"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-12-06"
last_action: "2024-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdb43822-dc74-4ee4-a6cf-56f92301fe22"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_status.aspx?lsr=2485&sy=2024&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2024"
source_hash: "a894652cb87cdc02d6c83e63744107b18cf9606ca61e3c846ab06c8117ac3208"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nh"]
---

# New Hampshire HB 1457 (2024) — establishing penalties for driving over covered wooden bridges in vehicles that exceed posted limits and for vehicular damage to covered wooden bridges.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **latest version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=1572&txtFormat=html)

## Sponsors

- Margaret M. Drye — primary (person)
- Arnold G. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Faulkner — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel E. Innis — cosponsor (person)
- James W Tierney — cosponsor (person)
- Lorrie J. Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Suzanne M. Prentiss — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas H Cormen — cosponsor (person)
- William S Palmer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-12-06** Introduced 01/03/2024 and referred to Transportation HJ 1 P. 21 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Public Hearing: 02/06/2024 02:30 pm LOB 203
- **2024-02-07** ==RECESSED== Executive Session: 02/13/2024 10:00 am LOB 203
- **2024-02-15** ==CONTINUED== Executive Session: 02/20/2024 01:00 pm LOB 203
- **2024-02-15** ==CANCELLED== Full Committee Work Session: 02/20/2024 10:00 am LOB 203
- **2024-02-28** Full Committee Work Session: 03/05/2024 10:30 am LOB 203
- **2024-02-28** Executive Session: 03/05/2024 01:00 pm LOB 203
- **2024-03-06** Committee Report: Ought to Pass 03/05/2024 (Vote 17-0; CC) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Ought to Pass: MA VV 03/14/2024 HJ 8 P. 10 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-03-26** Introduced 03/21/2024 and Referred to Transportation; SJ 8 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28** Hearing: 04/02/2024, Room 101, LOB, 01:20 pm; SC 13
- **2024-05-08** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/16/2024; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 19 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-09** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/15/2024; SJ 12 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-06-19** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/13/2024); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2024-06-19** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/13/2024 HJ 16 P. 43
- **2024-07-22** Signed by Governor Sununu 07/03/2024; Chapter 135; eff. 01/01/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bdb43822-dc74-4ee4-a6cf-56f92301fe22`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).